Welcome to our compilation of Law Quotes, where the wisdom of legal minds past and present is celebrated. From the profound reflections of eminent jurists to the witty observations of renowned legal scholars, these quotes encapsulate the essence of law, justice, and the human condition. Whether you’re a legal professional seeking inspiration, a student delving into the complexities of jurisprudence, or simply someone intrigued by the intricacies of the legal system, you’ll find thought-provoking insights and timeless wisdom within these pages.
Throughout history, the law has served as a cornerstone of civilization, shaping societies and guiding human conduct. It is a reflection of our collective values, aspirations for fairness, and quest for order in a complex world. From ancient legal codes etched in stone to modern statutes crafted in legislative chambers, the evolution of law mirrors the evolution of human society itself. With each quote presented here, we invite you to ponder the profound impact of the law on our lives, communities, and the broader tapestry of human history.
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. John Wesley
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. Susan B. Anthony
Trump survives by Corum’s Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York. Jimmy Breslin
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato
Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem. John Lennon
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt
Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down. Paul Newman
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Ronald Reagan
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. J. William Fulbright
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. St. Jerome
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence. Norman Finkelstein
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. Caroline Kennedy
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair
As president, I will only nominate judges – including Supreme Court justices – who will commit to upholding Roe v. Wade as settled law and protect women’s reproductive rights. Kirsten Gillibrand
My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law. Jerry Seinfeld
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. Arthur Baer
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. Leo Tolstoy
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. Vaclav Havel
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Aleister Crowley
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. Jeremy Bentham
Law is born from despair of human nature. Jose Ortega y Gasset
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. John Paul Jones
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. E. W. Howe
Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Samuel Butler
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. James Allen
‘Crazy’ is a term of art; ‘Insane’ is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. Hunter S. Thompson
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. Louis D. Brandeis
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Henry Adams
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle
Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Nikola Tesla
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance. P. J. O’Rourke
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France
Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide. William Godwin
Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines. Yuval Noah Harari
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. Napoleon Bonaparte
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. Barbara Boxer
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Earl Warren
Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you’re risking, what you’re bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn’t hurt anybody else. Edward Snowden
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. Harold S. Geneen
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. Ethan Allen
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country. Salman Rushdie
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. Cecil B. DeMille
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke
If you look in ‘The Science of Getting Rich,’ you see no reference whatsoever to the ‘law of attraction.’ Esther Hicks
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. Samuel Adams
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Mahatma Gandhi
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. J. Edgar Hoover
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it. Florence Nightingale
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. B. R. Ambedkar
In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. Hillary Clinton
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law. Barack Obama
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. Leonardo da Vinci
Being a law enforcement officer is one of the toughest jobs that there is, but it’s also foundational to a functioning society. We rely on these brave men and women to protect and serve our country every day. Tommy Tuberville
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience. Stokely Carmichael
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy – judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes – because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. George Will
We’ve had the facial recognition technology out for use for over two-and-a-half years now, and in those two-and-a-half years, we’ve never had any reported misuse of law enforcement using the facial recognition technology. Andy Jassy
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. Euripides
The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must. Jean-Claude Juncker
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. Thomas Hobbes
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. Saint Augustine
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law. Imran Khan
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. Bertolt Brecht
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. James Baldwin
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux
I have no tattoos at all – it was a huge undertaking for me in the ’80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did ‘L.A. Law.’ Jimmy Smits
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you. Cornelius Vanderbilt
I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another. Frank Ocean
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. Raymond Chandler
There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. Sylvester Stallone
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Henry David Thoreau
Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects. Peter Drucker
A judge can’t have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge’s only obligation – and it’s a solemn obligation – is to the rule of law. Samuel Alito
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. Mary Frances Berry
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. William Gaddis
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. Jonathan Sacks
The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness. Charles Spurgeon
The trouble with law is lawyers. Clarence Darrow
Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there. John Kennedy
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law. H. G. Wells
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die. Anne Boleyn
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
My loyalty is to the Constitution and the rule of law. John Ratcliffe
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. Al Gore
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. D. H. Lawrence
